کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4472669 1315074 2010 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Environmental impacts of post-consumer material managements: Recycling, biological treatments, incineration
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات مهندسی ژئوتکنیک و زمین شناسی مهندسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Environmental impacts of post-consumer material managements: Recycling, biological treatments, incineration
چکیده انگلیسی

The environmental impacts of recycling, mechanical biological treatments (MBT) and waste-to-energy incineration, the main management strategies to respond to the increasing production of post-consumer materials are reviewed and compared. Several studies carried out according to life-cycle assessment (LCA) confirm that the lowest environmental impact, on a global scale, is obtained by recycling and by biological treatments (composting and anaerobic fermentations) if compost is used in agriculture. The available air emission factors suggest that, on a local scale, mechanical biological treatments with energy recovery of biogas, may be intrinsically safer than waste-to-energy incinerators. Several studies confirm the capability of biological treatments to degrade many toxic xenobiotic contaminating urban wastes such as dioxins and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, an important property to be improved, for safe agricultural use of compost. Further LCA studies to compare the environmental impact of MBTs and of waste-to-energy incinerators are recommended.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Waste Management - Volume 30, Issue 11, November 2010, Pages 2354–2361
نویسندگان
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